{"id":8195,"count":3,"description":"Van Meter is a city in Dallas County, Iowa, along the Raccoon River. The population was 866 at the 2000 census and is part of the Des Moines\u2013West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nOn November 11, 2006, Veterans Day, ground was broken for an Iowa Veterans Cemetery at a site located near Van Meter. Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack was among those who helped dedicate the cemetery.\nVan Meter's longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal form are 41.531505, -93.955338). \nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6\u00a0km), of which, 0.6 square miles (1.6\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (3.23%) is water.\nVan Meter is situated west of Des Moines, just south of Interstate 80.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 866 people, 326 households, and 237 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,450.3 people per square mile (557.3\/km\u00b2). There were 342 housing units at an average density of 572.8 per square...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/van-meter\/","name":"Van Meter","slug":"van-meter","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}